How to format your references using the Journal of Chinese Political Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Chinese Political Science. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Lawler, A. 2000. ASIAN-AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: Silent No Longer: “Model Minority” Mobilizes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 290: 1072–1077.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hulleman, Chris S., and Judith M. Harackiewicz. 2009. Promoting interest and performance in high school science classes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 326: 1410–1412.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bernhard, Helen, Urs Fischbacher, and Ernst Fehr. 2006. Parochial altruism in humans. Nature 442: 912–915.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Korn, A. J., F. Grundahl, O. Richard, P. S. Barklem, L. Mashonkina, R. Collet, N. Piskunov, and B. Gustafsson. 2006. A probable stellar solution to the cosmological lithium discrepancy. Nature 442: 657–659.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Fuller, Sam. 2005. RapidIO®: The Embedded System Interconnect. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ábrahám, Erika, Marcello Bonsangue, and Einar Broch Johnsen, ed. 2016. Theory and Practice of Formal Methods: Essays Dedicated to Frank de Boer on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. Vol. 9660. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Charpiat, G., M. Hofmann, and B. Schölkopf. 2015. Kernel Methods in Medical Imaging. In Handbook of Biomedical Imaging: Methodologies and Clinical Research, ed. Nikos Paragios, James Duncan, and Nicholas Ayache, 63–81. Boston, MA: Springer US.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of Chinese Political Science.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2016. World’s Largest Megaraptor Was Nothing Short Of Terrifying. IFLScience. IFLScience. July 21.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. 2009. Homeland Security: Despite Progress, DHS Continues to Be Challenged in Managing Its Multi-Billion Dollar Annual Investment in Large-Scale Information Technology Systems. GAO-09-1002T. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Nixon, Helen A. 2015. Defining Principals: The Seen and the Unseen. A Critical Discourse Analysis of Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards Five and Six. Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington University.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Hubbard, Ben. 2016. Syrian Forces Capture Refugee Camp, Tightening Siege of Rebels in Aleppo. New York Times, September 24.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Chinese Political Science
Abbreviation	J. Chin. Polit. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1080-6954
ISSN (online)	1874-6357
Scope	Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations